“There’s this toxic belief that family should stick together simply because they’re family. But the best thing I ever did for myself was walk away from them. It scares me to think of where I might be had I not done that.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
“He became the hook upon which she hung her whole self.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“Sometimes you’re going to need me to hold your hand down the hills, and sometimes I’ll need you to lead me up the mountain, but everything, from this point forward, we’re going to face together.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
“I can draw a seedling with two tiny branches. Yours and mine. We’ll be on our own brand-new, tiny family tree—one that starts with us.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
“Nothing he has done or felt in this regard before has prepared him remotely for this new experience, with Margaret: the experience of mutual desire. To feel an interpenetration of thought between the two of them, understanding her, looking at her and knowing, yes, even without speaking, what she feels and wants, and knowing that she understands him also, completely.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
Paula Melisa’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science fiction, Spirituality, and Travel
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